Saturday, January 19, 2013

Enable Soft-Keys on Samsung Galaxy Note 2

I wanted to enable the soft-keys on my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 after switching to the new nightly builds of CyanogenMod 10.1.

I found that it is actually rather easy to turn them on. It just requires modifying the build.prop with the following:

qemu.hw.mainkeys=0

If you want to disable them later just change it to:

qemu.hw.mainkeys=1

After you modify the build.prop you have to reboot for the changes to take affect.

This change will turn on the soft-keys, but it does not disable the hardware keys. But you can disable them too. You have to open /system/usr/keylayout/Generic.kl and comment out the following by added a '#' to the beginning of the line.

Enable Soft-Keys on Samsung Galaxy Note 2

I wanted to enable the soft-keys on my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 after switching to the new nightly builds of CyanogenMod 10.1.

I found that it is actually rather easy to turn them on. It just requires modifying the build.prop with the following:

qemu.hw.mainkeys=0

If you want to disable them later just change it to:

qemu.hw.mainkeys=1

After you modify the build.prop you have to reboot for the changes to take affect.

This change will turn on the soft-keys, but it does not disable the hardware keys. But you can disable them too. You have to open /system/usr/keylayout/Generic.kl and comment out the following by added a '#' to the beginning of the line.